Washboard.



No. 645,564. Patented Mar. 20, I900. R. E. LEVE.

WASHBOARD.

(Applicatiun filed. July 27, 1899.) (No Model.)

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- ROBERT E. LEVE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPEGlFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,564, dated March 20, 1900. Application filed July 27, 1899. $erial no. 725,293. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. LEVE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washboards, of which the following is a specification, reference being.

bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to improvements in washboards; and it has for its object to pro-. vide a simple and improved washboard in which the soap will be automatically fed.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the anor adapted construction and carries the cor-' rugated rubbing-surface B. Through the surface B, preferably about centrally, is provided a transverse slot b, in which operates a corrugated' roller 0, journaled, as at c,in the sides of the frame. The periphery of said roller at its front projects slightly beyond the plane of the face of the rubbing-surface B, so that the passage of the clothes over the latter will turn the roller.

Projecting rearwardly from the slot B at the back of the washboard is apocket D, having an inclined front and rear wall, as at e andf, respectively, between which a cake of soap (shown at G) is adapted to be retained, so that it will rest against the top portion of the periphery of the roller 0. The bottom of the pocket'D at the baseof the roller is preferably slotted transversely, as at g, to permit 7 pocket, when the operation of rubbing the clothes over the rubbing-surface will turn the roller with its corrugated surface in contact with the soap, and the latter will be thus fed to the clothes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved washboard, comprising the rubbing-surface having a slot, a roller operating in said slot, and means for retaining a cake of soap in contact with said roller, substantially as set forth. 7 v

2. An improved washboard, comprising the rubbin -surface having a slot, a roller operating in said slot, and a pocket extending from said slot at the rear end of the washboard and adapted to retain a cake of soap in contact with said roller, substantially 'as shown and described.

3. Animpr-ovedwashboard,comprisingthe In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 7 my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 25th day of July,

ROBERT E. LEVE. Witnesses:

M. G. MACLEAN, GEo. E. BARRETT. 

